From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/88702 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Problem with gnus on emacs-26 on debian 10: "Mail source (file) error (Searching for Program)" Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2019 19:18:08 +0200 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: <864l2qntpr.fsf@dod.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="94618"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (windows-nt) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M36906@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Aug 09 19:18:49 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hw8XQ-000OQ5-Hy for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 09 Aug 2019 19:18:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1hw8Wc-0004UX-Ma; Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:17:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1hw8WX-0004Rs-TM for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:17:53 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1hw8WU-0008Ao-1S for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:17:53 -0500 Original-Received: from 195-159-176-226.customer.powertech.no ([195.159.176.226] helo=blaine.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hw8WP-0000Rq-JN for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 09 Aug 2019 19:17:48 +0200 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hw8WO-000NIa-Br for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 09 Aug 2019 19:17:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:kc15nsHa8Nu/wX8ZtNyZ0VHMnx0= List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:88702 Archived-At: Platform: Debian 10.0 "buster", amd64 GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.4) of 2019-02-03, modified by Debian Gnus v5.13 When starting gnus and when fetching new mail and news with 'g', I get the following error message in the minibuffer: Mail source (file) error (Searching for Program) According to the docs[1]: You tell Gnus how to fetch mail by setting mail-sources (see Fetching Mail) to a mail source specifier. Doing 'C-h v mail-sources RET': mail-sources is a variable defined in ‘mail-source.el’. Its value is ((file)) Also according to [1], about "file": :path The file name. Defaults to the value of the MAIL environment variable or the value of rmail-spool-directory (usually something like /usr/mail/spool/user-name). Doing 'C-h v rmail-spool-directory RET rmail-spool-directory is a variable defined in ‘rmail.el’. Its value is "/var/mail/" which points to the directory where my inbox resides: sb@lorenzo:~$ ls -al /var/mail/sb -rw-rw---- 1 sb mail 28529 Aug 4 10:39 /var/mail/sb sb@lorenzo:~$ The MAIL environment variable also points to my inbox: sb@lorenzo:~$ env | grep MAIL MAIL=/var/mail/sb sb@lorenzo:~$ Does anybody know what the problem might be? Thanks! - Steinar References: [1]